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I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.

Nina Simone

What is love but a prelude to sorrow with heartache ahead for your goal.
NINA SIMONE

Goal Love Sorrow Yourself
I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about… Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
NINA SIMONE

Dedication Excellence Freedom Music Myself Pursue
I have a cultured manner of speaking.
NINA SIMONE

Culture Myself Speak
Jazz is not just music, it’s a way of life, it’s a way of being, a way of thinking.
NINA SIMONE

Life Music Thinking Way
To be young, gifted and black!
NINA SIMONE

Black One Liner Young
Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.
NINA SIMONE

Depression Slave Sorrow Time
My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That’s how I see my voice.
NINA SIMONE

Call Expression Instrument Myself See Singing Voice
I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat – a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
NINA SIMONE

Love Man Myself Pay Rich Sea Water
This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.
NINA SIMONE

Live World Yourself
I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
NINA SIMONE

Assosiation Awareness Drinking Life Music
You don’t have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.
NINA SIMONE

Equality Live Yourself
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day and I’m feeling good.
NINA SIMONE

Day Feeling Good Morning Myself
I’m a real rebel with a cause.
NINA SIMONE

Reality Reason Rebel
I know I’m different, but I don’t think about it.
NINA SIMONE

Different Myself Thinking
Music is an art and art has its own rules.
NINA SIMONE

Art Music Rule
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.
NINA SIMONE

Beginning Black Woman

I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs and good ones.

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